The Fields Of Flanders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GHII DDAA| Last year the fields were all glad and gay | A |
| With silver daisies and silver may | A |
| There were kingcups gold by the river's edge | B |
| And primrose stars under every hedge | B |
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| This year the fields are trampled and brown | C |
| The hedges are broken and beaten down | C |
| And where the primroses used to grow | D |
| Are little black crosses set in a row | D |
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| And the flower of hopes and the flowers of dreams | E |
| The noble fruitful beautiful schemes | E |
| The tree of life with its fruit and bud | F |
| Are trampled down in the mud and the blood | F |
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| The changing seasons will bring again | G |
| The magic of Spring to our wood and plain | H |
| Though the Spring be so green as never was seen | I |
| The crosses will still be black in the green | I |
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| The God of battles shall judge the foe | D |
| Who trampled our country and laid her low | D |
| God hold our hands on the reckoning day | A |
| Lest all we owe them we should repay | A |
E. (edith) Nesbit
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